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The disgusting imperial criminals do not give up. Syria continues to be martyred by Washington's and Ankara's meddling.
The 2015 bit is the fact that Russia is present, and its activity has greatly increased in the first weeks of February.
In the ten days leading up to February 14th, Russia reportedly carried out more than 700 airstrikes on ISIS cells in Central Syria. This is an impressive number, but the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights claimed that as a result only 33 ISIS terrorists had been killed. According to the same report, the Syrian Arab Army had more significant losses – 56, but it is being targeted by almost every “moderate” and “radical” party on the battlefield.
The attempts to rebrand Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham as a “reformed group” that’s no longer affiliated with al-Qaeda also continues. The US has chosen its future ally.
In a clear disagreement, on February 13th, Russia targeted a secret HTS headquarters in Idlib and completely devastated it. It also continues to attempt and enforce the ceasefire agreement in Idlib, tracking every violation and punishing it. The agreement is largely ineffective due to Turkey’s non-implementation.
Moscow is not only on the giving end, but also on the receiving one.
On February 14th, an Orlan-10 drone was reportedly downed by militants over Greater Idlib. In Manbij, near the Turkish-occupied region of Afrin, the Turkish-backed “moderate opposition” opened fire on Russia’s military police. Russia was forced to deploy more troops and equipment to the region.
On February 13th, the Russian military sent a new batch of equipment and vehicles to its base at the Qamishli Airport.
In the area of speculation, Russian opposition media reported that Russia was extending the runway at the Hmeimim Air Base, to be able to host strategic long-range aircraft. It is a potential preparation for future chaos. Or an attempt to show parity with the United States’ continued flights of B-52 bombers over the Middle East in recent months.
The United States is not keeping still, while Russia is operating. In a rare event, it eliminated an ISIS commander in a drone strike. It also vacated one of its many positions in northeastern Syria.
This is only significant in the view that it likely will reposition, and support some of its new allies. The biggest players have began their movements in expectation of the coming storm.
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Comments Sampler (Original thread) As shown in this article, a late 2020 interview with the U.S. Special Representative for Syria, James Jeffrey, clearly outlines Washington’s agenda in Syria: https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-truth-about-washingtons-involvement.html Apparently, in James Jeffrey’s world, its okay to punish a nation and its beleaguered civilian population for the better part of a decade and hide information from the Commander-in-Chief and the American public just because Washington wanted to see an end to Bashar al-Assad who is still the democratically elected President of Syria. I am not certain (and I have read every word I could find about and more importantly by ISIS) that the group we rev exists except as a marketing brand. It seems to have been created as a comic strip villain in a particularly infantile Hollywood studio. But whether it actually exists or not, “fighting ISIS” requires ISIS to (re)appear, which in turn requires it to be given arms and weapons and money as well as jihadis fresh out of the Quisling Kurd prisons. As such, as I say in my comic strip*, it should give Bidet a Valentine, as should al Qaeda. And because they didn’t, I had to do it on their behalf. * https://ragheadthefiendlyterrorist.wordpress.com/2021/02/13/valentines-day-2/ The grandiosely named ‘Syrian Observatory for Human Rights’ is not a reliable source of info on Syria. It is, in reality, a one man band, an anti-Assad Syrian expat, working from home, in the provincial town of Coventry, UK. This pro-Western propaganda outfit is routinely quoted as a source of authoritative news on Syria by the Brit bourgeois media as if it were some kind of of neutral, disinterested NGO. It is nothing of the kind. |
^5000The mainstream imperialist media lie CONSTANTLY. Literally 24/7. And it's getting worse.
All of them do it: radio, tv, the newspapers, the movies. The internet. No exceptions.
The corporate Big Lie is pervasive and totalitarian. CBS does it. NBC does it. ABC does it.
CNN does it. FOX does it. NPR does it. And of course the NYTimes and WaPo do it.
Thousands of "diverse" voices telling you the same lies. Enough to convince anyone.
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